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High Blood Pressure (Hypertension)

Blood is pumped by the heart into the arteries with some pressure. This is known as blood pressure. Blood pressure is defined as the amount of force exerted by the blood...

April 29, 2012

Abhidhana Chintamani

Abhidhāna Chintāmaṇi (literally “The Jeweled Treasure of Words”) is a celebrated Sanskrit thesaurus or lexicon, composed by the eminent Jain scholar Hemachandra Acharya in the 12th century CE....

April 29, 2012

Abhidhana

Abhidhāna is a Sanskrit term meaning “dictionary,” “lexicon,” or “word-list”, derived from the root abhi + dhā (“to denote” or “to name”). In the context of traditional Indian...

April 29, 2012

Abastanoi

Abastanoi refers to the people who dwelt, on the eve of Alexander’s invasion on the chenab above its confluence with the Indus River, in the North Western Parts...

April 29, 2012

Abdur razzak of Golconda

Abdur Razzak Khan Lari, also known as Abdur Razzak Lari or Mustafa Khan, was a prominent noble and military commander who served under Sultan Abul Hasan Qutb Shah,...

April 29, 2012

Abdur Rahman Khan

Abdur Rahman Khan (1844–1901), often referred to as the Iron Amir of Afghanistan, was the ruler of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. He is best known for unifying...

April 29, 2012

Govt proposes a board for growth of auto sector

NAB: National Automative Board The government has finalized the proposal to set up NAB under the Department of Heavy Industry to support fresh initiatives for the growth of...

April 28, 2012

Jan 16, 2012 troop movement was purely training drill: Govt

Discounting a media report on "non-notified" troop movement by army, the government informed Rajya Sabha that the exercise was undertaken for training purpose directed at refining mobilization drills...

April 28, 2012

India forecasts average monsoon rains this year

Earth Sciences Minister Vilasrao Deshmukh held that India is probable to experience average monsoon rains this year, thus forecasting a third straight year without drought. Deshmukh held that...

April 28, 2012

EC relaxes Model Code of Conduct ahead of June 12 by-polls

The EC (Election Commission) has settled to relax the Model Code of Conduct, on an experimental basis, by permitting partial implementation of developmental schemes in those districts where...

April 28, 2012

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